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CAMP MINISTRY: A VALUABLE INVESTMENT
The value of Christian camps is well known to the readers of Frontlines. Many of you fi rst heard the Gospel at a Christian camp. Perhaps you were saved at camp and maybe it was at camp you met your husband/wife.
SGA has long understood the value of camps as one of the key elements in the spread and expansion of the Gospel and this our 75th year is no exception. Along with our partners in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Mongolia, we will be financially and practically supporting summer camps.
In Central Asia 150 churches will be involved in camps with more than 350 workers and children from across 32 nationalities. Most of these children will be from Christian homes but many will be coming from Orthodox, Muslim and non-religious backgrounds. The cost per child will be 30 euros and, like camps in the UK, will have all the usual activities. Pray as camps and teams come together that children, hearing the Good News, will respond in repentance and faith.
Obviously there are great challenges and inevitable problems in areas where Christians face restrictions and persecution, but our God is able to overcome these problems. When God moves, as He is doing in Central Asia, obstacles are no problem. The gates of hell will not prevail against the church.
As this edition of Frontlines goes to print, preparations are being made for online training seminars to equip Mongolian leaders and helpers for planned summer camps in their country. It is hoped by God’s grace to run one camp in the east of the country and 12 in the west with an estimated 1,000 children attending.
Continue to pray for the planning and teaching not only in these countries but also in Moldova, where camps have been pivotal in the growth of the church since the fall of communism. Many first-generation Christians in Moldovan churches came to Christ through camp ministry.
SGA Regional Coordinator Peter Milhalchiuk writes, ‘The day camps in Moldova are of paramount importance…it’s a great time of sowing the word in the hearts of the younger generation.’